Okinawa
Having grown up on the ocean, I am often amazed at how easy it is to slip into the comfort of silence. From an early age, I was trained in the art of sitting together quietly, listening to the wind and...
View ArticleIn the Sun
I will be honest. There has not been a whole lot of sunshine here in Okinawa since my arrival. The island is at the tailend of its rainy season, so while there’s been plenty of cloudporn and the...
View ArticleI May Have Spoken Too Soon
Today was another brilliant blue sky day here in Okinawa, even moreso than yesterday.
View ArticleFive Hour Walk
I don’t have a lot of words, but I do have a lot of pictures. Listen, all this relaxing is positively exhausting. I have to go swimming. I have to lay in the sand. I have to make vodka tonics for...
View ArticleNeighborhood Bits
In case I forgot to mention, Okinawa is not just white sand beaches and green forest and turquoise water and volcanic rock. It’s also bicycles and edible children and cute cafés and talking elevators...
View ArticleTourism
Some days you wake up and just feel like being a tourist. More often than not, I like to feel my way into a place when I’m traveling. I’m not all that keen on sights and would always prefer to get the...
View ArticleA little bit of California
I’ve been on the road for the last few weeks, visiting good friends and family from coast to coast. August kicked off in Southern California, where there was good eating, good laughing and good loving....
View ArticleNew York, Part 2
On my second day in New York, after an early morning walk across the Brooklyn Bridge with my dad (something he’d never done despite growing up in and around New York), I met my friend Corey in...
View ArticleChesapeake
By the middle of August, after a couple weeks of traveling, I found myself in Washington DC at the home of my cousin Heather and her husband Phillip. It had been an obscenely long time since we’d seen...
View ArticleThe Official End of Summer
I’m writing from Terminal A of Logan Airport, where I am waiting to board my flight to Seoul. I think it goes without saying that my summer has been of the stupendous variety, and I find myself — for...
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